Faculty, Staff and Student Publications
Language
English
Publication Date
11-1-2025
Journal
Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
DOI
10.1016/j.rdc.2025.07.015
PMID
41161912
PMCID
PMC13098319
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
4-22-2026
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Author MSS
Abstract
Polymyositis (PM) has been in the diagnostic armamentarium in medicine since the mid-nineteenth century. Medicine training puts a heavy emphasis on this diagnosis, and anyone with proximal muscle weakness with elevated serum creatinine kinase is assumed to be PM and a number of patients were rendered this diagnosis without additional testing. This article addresses the historical aspects of the diagnosis of PM and its evolution. We review this literature that addresses the rarity of this diagnosis and rightly puts in perspective in terms of its occurrence in relation to other inflammatory myositides.
Keywords
Humans, Polymyositis, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, polymyositis, myositis, mythology, inclusion body myositis, myopathology
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Suur Biliciler and Tahseen Mozaffar, "The Mythology of Polymyositis" (2025). Faculty, Staff and Student Publications. 3750.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/uthmed_docs/3750